Montalbetti: Chamber Music Harmonieuses Dissonances

Featuring

Christian Tetzlaff
Alexander Vorontsov
Delphine Haidan
Pierre Génisson
Hae-Sun Kang
Éric-Maria Couturier

Hideki Nagano
David Grimal
Stefan Simonca-Oprita
David Gaillard
Xavier Phillips
Quatuor Les Dissonances
Eric Montalbetti

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Composition History

The Duo for violin & piano is subtitled "Lied des Dankes für das Leben in Freundschaft" (Song of thanksgiving for life in friendship) to reflect the deep friendship between violinist Christian Tetzlaff and pianist Lars Vogt, who commissioned it.

Composition History

Hommage à Matisse, a triptych for clarinet and female voice, was conceived as a tribute to painter Henri Matisse on the occasion of his 150th birth anniversary.

Compositional Technique

In Hommage à Matisse, the composer Éric Montalbetti aimed to reconcile the freedom of a quasi-improvised style with the cohesion of an overall harmonic structure, drawing on modes and scales inspired by Olivier Messiaen.

Album & Artwork

This album of chamber music, titled "Harmonieuses dissonances," follows a previous Alpha Classics release (alpha 263) of six solos by Éric Montalbetti.

Composer's Artistic Vision

While Éric Montalbetti's previous album was a collection of personal emotions, this new album celebrates friendship and the essential complementarity of human beings.

Compositional Technique

The String Quartet "Harmonieuses dissonances" begins with contrasting motifs that may seem dissonant, gradually arranging and enriching them to build a balanced form and a new sense of harmony.

Composition History

The Trio for violin, cello & piano is a triptych, with each movement conceived as a homage to a different early 20th-century artistic movement, including Suprematism, Orphism, and Futurism.